Putin ploy to drive Ukraine into cold & dark as winter begins to bite | Details

Russian airstrikes cut power & water supplies to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians. Vladimir Putin expanding Russian campaign to drive Ukraine into the cold and dark. Zelensky said, 30% of Ukraine’s power stations have been destroyed in the past week. Russian strategy to deprive access to water, power and heat as winter begins to bite. Across Ukraine, even far from front lines, basic utilities are no longer certainties. Daily Russian strikes reaching far into the country and damaging Ukrainian facilities. The latest city shorn of power was Zhytomyr, home to military bases & industries. Zhytomyr mayor stated the whole city of 2,50,000 lost power and also water initially. Hospitals switched to backup power after the double missile strike on an energy facility. In the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, Russian missile strikes damaged two power facilities. Missiles also severely damaged an energy facility in the south-central city of Dnipro. Strikes hit the region of Sumy & drones set ablaze an infra facility in Zaporizhzhia.